books.google.com - Born in 1895 in a remote fishing village in Spain, Cristóbal Balenciaga learned sewing and tailoring at his mother’s knee. By 1937, the talented and persistent young man had opened his own design salon in Paris, and in the years following World War II he emerged as a designer to be reckoned with in...http://books.google.com/books/about/Balenciaga_And_His_Legacy.html?id=oFBZg1C2REIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBalenciaga And His Legacy
